[STAROFFICE] Is it possible to print from Command Line?
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office? For an extra point can you print to file without starting star office. Just an idle curiousity on a rainy Friday afternoon.
On Friday 03 August 2001 11:53, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office?
Yes, if you already have created the file. For an extra point can you print to file without
starting star office.
This seems a bit ridiculous.... how do you *get* a StarOffice file without running StarOffice?
Just an idle curiousity on a rainy Friday afternoon.
And what are you drinking on this rainy afternoon? :o) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/03/01 13:28 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "If you've ever used a CD-ROM as a coaster to set your beer on, you might be a "high tech Redneck'"
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office?
Yes, if you already have created the file.
Ah-ha well answered. I should also have said: "And how do you do it?"
For an extra point can you print to file without
starting star office.
This seems a bit ridiculous.... how do you *get* a StarOffice file without running StarOffice?
Sorry I should have said can you print to postscript without starting soffice (and how do you do it?)
And what are you drinking on this rainy afternoon? :o)
No comment ;) TIA, Jethro
On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:39, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office?
Yes, if you already have created the file.
Ah-ha well answered. I should also have said: "And how do you do it?"
Depends what kind of a 'file' it is.... Let's assume it is in postscript format. Do you have a printer that will accept PS? If not, you will have to use ghostscript, enscript or a lot of other commands I'm not really familiar with... Or a print filter that will handle PS in and ?? out.. whatever your printer needs.
For an extra point can you print to file without
starting star office.
This seems a bit ridiculous.... how do you *get* a StarOffice file without running StarOffice?
Sorry I should have said can you print to postscript without starting soffice (and how do you do it?)
Most linux applications print in Postscript... but your question is still vague... how can I 'print to' anything without starting 'something' to do the printing? Maybe I don't know what you mean by 'print to'. Confused....... +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/04/01 12:45 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more."
On Saturday 04 August 2001 18:49, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:39, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office?
Yes, if you already have created the file.
Ah-ha well answered. I should also have said: "And how do you do it?"
Depends what kind of a 'file' it is.... Let's assume it is in postscript format. Do you have a printer that will accept PS? If not, you will have to use ghostscript, enscript or a lot of other commands I'm not really familiar with... Or a print filter that will handle PS in and ?? out.. whatever your printer needs.
For an extra point can you print to file without
starting star office.
This seems a bit ridiculous.... how do you *get* a StarOffice file without running StarOffice?
Sorry I should have said can you print to postscript without starting soffice (and how do you do it?)
Most linux applications print in Postscript... but your question is still vague... how can I 'print to' anything without starting 'something' to do the printing?
Maybe I don't know what you mean by 'print to'.
Confused.......
Sounds fairly simple to me. He's looking for an app that will allow him to convert from the various star office file formats to star office without starting the entire SO desktop. I don't think there is one, unfortunately, but the question was straightforward, IMHO
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------- --+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/04/01 12:45 + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- --+ "Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more."
regards Anders
On Saturday 04 August 2001 19:28, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 04 August 2001 18:49, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:39, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office?
Yes, if you already have created the file.
Ah-ha well answered. I should also have said: "And how do you do it?"
Depends what kind of a 'file' it is.... Let's assume it is in postscript format. Do you have a printer that will accept PS? If not, you will have to use ghostscript, enscript or a lot of other commands I'm not really familiar with... Or a print filter that will handle PS in and ?? out.. whatever your printer needs.
For an extra point can you print to file without
starting star office.
This seems a bit ridiculous.... how do you *get* a StarOffice file without running StarOffice?
Sorry I should have said can you print to postscript without starting soffice (and how do you do it?)
Most linux applications print in Postscript... but your question is still vague... how can I 'print to' anything without starting 'something' to do the printing?
Maybe I don't know what you mean by 'print to'.
Confused.......
Sounds fairly simple to me. He's looking for an app that will allow him to convert from the various star office file formats to star office without starting the entire SO desktop. I don't think there is one, unfortunately, but the question was straightforward, IMHO
s/to star office/to postscript doh!
+------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- --+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/04/01 12:45 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- --+ "Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more."
regards Anders
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:39, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to print a star office file without starting star office?
Yes, if you already have created the file.
Ah-ha well answered. I should also have said: "And how do you do it?"
Depends what kind of a 'file' it is.... Let's assume it is in postscript format. Do you have a printer that will accept PS? If not, you will have to use ghostscript, enscript or a lot of other commands I'm not really familiar with... Or a print filter that will handle PS in and ?? out.. whatever your printer needs.
For an extra point can you print to file without
starting star office.
This seems a bit ridiculous.... how do you *get* a StarOffice file without running StarOffice?
Sorry I should have said can you print to postscript without starting soffice (and how do you do it?)
Most linux applications print in Postscript... but your question is still vague... how can I 'print to' anything without starting 'something' to do the printing?
Maybe I don't know what you mean by 'print to'.
Confused.......
Well, I think what he intends to do is the scriptable version of <excuemode> right click in widows exploder on a *.doc file, select print from it and get the document file printed. of course winword would be started with some DDE or whatever commands and print the document </excusemode> A "soffice myfile.sda -print" could do something similar, if it would work that way. I looked into the SO help that wasn't a help at all on that subject. Also interested, Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Sorry all, lost access to internet for a while. What I am trying to do is more or less described by Juergen:
Well, I think what he intends to do is the scriptable version of <excuemode> right click in widows exploder on a *.doc file, select print from it and get the document file printed. of course winword would be started with some DDE or whatever commands and print the document </excusemode>
A "soffice myfile.sda -print" could do something similar, if it would work that way.
I regularly have a lot of word documents that I want to turn into pdf files (and I don't want to run Windows to do it). At the moment I open them all up in Star Office manually print them to file (that's a postscript file) and then I convert them to pdf. I would like to make a script that does this all in one step.
I looked into the SO help that wasn't a help at all on that subject.
Well said. Regards, Jethro
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I regularly have a lot of word documents that I want to turn into pdf files (and I don't want to run Windows to do it). At the moment I open them all up in Star Office manually print them to file (that's a postscript file) and then I convert them to pdf. I would like to make a script that does this all in one step.
There's a way to do it by specifying a script to run whenever a document is loaded. That script can then print the file and exit StarOffice and you can do 'soffice filename' sfor each file. The necessary documentation should be in the scripting section of the help. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7b+av+FOexA3koIgRArLYAJ4sBgIGWf7PzzxduHDgaHvnsTjCaQCeMF9U pfWLVIuoTdNs6OhkGWexiUA= =P3UL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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